- I have a lot of extra time on my hand these days and out of boredom I bake. Well I bake really for any reason I can. But here's the brother threw together yesterday and was very pleased with the way it turned out. I'm using my cell phone to make this post so hopefully it makes sense. Because voice to text and me do not get along very well. 😊 Hope you try this bread come back and let me know what you think. I had it garlic powder to mine without even measuring but I was guessing probably a teaspoon it could have even been a half a teaspoon. You do not need to add the garlic powder to yours if you're not a big garlic lover I just wanted to make sure it really had a garlic flavor to it, sometimes garlic bulbs alone do not give it enough garlic flavor. You can use dried oregano also I just happen to have some in my garden. You can switch it out and use thyme or Rosemary whatever you like, make it to your liking.
- 2 large bulb of roasted garlic
- Olive oil as needed
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 50 g active starter
- 365 g warm water
- 460 g all purpose flour
- 20 g bread flour (sometimes I use the bread flour sometimes I don't. Also sometimes I use 480 g of bread flour and no all-purpose flour.)
- 20 g whole wheat flour
- 18 g sea salt-divided in half
- 1 T. chopped fresh fresh Oregano leaves chopped (to taste)
- 1/2 to 3/4 cups Parmesan cheese
Heat oven to 400
Cut off tips of garlic and either wrap in foil with olive oil drizzled on top or bake in a oven safe container with a lid. Bake garlic until soft set aside
too cool then squeeze garlic out of pod and set aside
Mix starter and water in a large bowl. Add flours, half of the salt and mix together. Then add garlic powder, chopped oregano and the garlic that you baked. Along with parmesan cheese. Mix together and set aside and cover for at least 8 hours.
After 8 hours remove dough from container and shape into a round shape. Put on top of parchment paper and set in a medium size bowl to keep its shape. Make sure the bowl is not bigger then the pan you will be baking it in. Let rise 1 hour to 1 1/2 hour and a half.
30 minutes before you are ready to bake your bread, preheat oven to 450 add your dutch oven with the lid. You want your pan very hot.
Use a very sharp knife or a razor and cut a a long slit in your bread or if you want to get fancy even cut any design you want.
Sprinkle remaining salt on top of bread,
Bake for 30 minutes with the lid on. Remove the lid and bake for another 20 minutes. Let it cool completely before cutting. Good luck with that one, there is nothing better than hot bread with butter on it in my opinion. So needless to say I have never let my bread completely cool. But from what I hear it's much better if you do. 😁
